Capital Comments

2008

• Circuit Breakers: A Simple Idea with Complex Results
  April 24, 2008
• Property Tax Reform: What Have We Got?
  March 27, 2008
• Property Taxes Down; Sales Taxes Up
  February 28, 2008
• Farmland Assessments--Present and Future
  January 24, 2008

2007

• School Referenda
  December 27, 2007
• The Economy's Other Hands
  November 21, 2007
• Have We Already Solved Our Property Tax ?
  September 27, 2007
• How Do Indiana Taxes Compare?
  August 23, 2007
• What's Behind the Property Tax Crisis?
  July 26, 2007
• Counties Must Decide: Property Taxes or Income Taxes?
  June 28, 2007
• Band-aid or Surgery for Indiana Property Taxes?
  May 24, 2007
• Odds of Recession
  April 26, 2007
• Homeowner Property Taxes
  March 22, 2007
• Could We Axe the Property Tax?
  February 22, 2007
• Farmland Assessments Are Going Up
  January 25, 200

2006

• One-Billion, Six-Hundred-Million Dollars
  December 18, 2006
• Knotty Problems in Property Taxation
  November 22, 2006
• The Fed and the Great Moderation
  October 27, 2006
• Trending and Two Percent
  September 28, 2006
• A Little "Slowth" for the U.S. Economy
  August 24, 2006
• Happy (But Not Ecstatic) About the Budget
  July 27, 2006
• It's Costly To Be Small
  June 22, 2006
• More Monster Months?
  May 25, 2006
• Buying Imports With Assets
  April 27, 2006
• Indiana's Tax Triathlon
  March 23, 2006
• February No Tax Sales
  February 23, 2006
• Who Should Assess Taxable Property?
  January 26, 2006

2005

• A State Budget Surprise
  December 22, 2005
• Speed Bumps and Bernanke
  November 23, 2005
• What We Know About the Property Tax
  October 27, 2005
• Income Tax Money and Muddles
  September 22, 2005
• After Greenspan
  August 25, 2005
• The Road to Fiscal Health
  July 28, 2005
• Indiana in a Flat World
  June 23, 2005
• A Property Tax List
  May 26, 2005
• At the Bureau of the Public Debt
  April 28, 2005
• Base Rate Update
  March 25, 2005
• Frozen Property Tax Relief
  February 24, 2005<
• The Last Tax Sale
  January 27, 2005

2004

• A Good News Forecast, A Bad News Budget
  December 22, 2004
• What Did We Vote For?
  November 24, 2004
• Property Tax Stability and Circuit Breakers
  October 28, 2004
• We All Get To Vote on the Property Tax
  October 14, 2004
• Indiana's Budget and the Next Recession
  September 23, 2004
• The Outlook and Oil
  August 26, 2004
• Superstars and the Rest of Us
  July 22, 2004
• Free Forecasts on the Web
  June 24, 2004
• Job Numbers for the D's and R's
  April 22, 2004
• The Check in Ida Mae Fuller's Mailbox
  March 25, 2004
• Local Government from Scratch
  February 26, 2004
• Sales Tax Maybes
  January 22, 2004

2003

• Getting It Right
  December 22, 2003
• Property Taxes on Farmland
  November 26, 2003
• Tax Relief: When, Who and How?
  October 23, 2003
• Where's the Tax Relief?
  September 25, 2003
• Reassessment: How Old Is Your House?
  August 28, 2003
• Closeout Day
  July 24, 2003
• Maybe Tax Bills Shouldn't Be So Complicated
  June 26, 2003
• The Big Drop in Local Income Tax Revenue
  May 22, 2003
• Flat-Lining Medicaid
  April 24, 2003
• Can We Fund Local Government Without Property Tax Assessments?
  March 27, 2003
• Counties Can Bring an Early End to the Inventory Tax
  February 27, 2003
• Too Many Numbers, Not Enough Growth
  January 23, 2003

2002

• The State Revenue Forecast: Are You Sitting Down?
  December 30, 2002
• A Nickel and a Penny
  November 27, 2002
• A Scary Budget Story
  October 24, 2002
• Your Property Tax Rate Will Fall
  September 26, 2002
• Recession Now and Then
  August 2, 2002
• How Big is the Bezzle?
  July 25, 2002
• Tax Restructuring Answers and Questions
  June 27, 2002
• Follow the Fun at the Special Session
  May 23, 2002
• Indiana's Golden Straightjacket
  April 25, 2002
• Where the Legislature Agreed
  March 28, 2002
• Tax Restructuring Past
  February 28, 2002
• The Inventory Story
  January 24, 2002

2001

• Peaks and Troughs
  December 27, 2001
• Crunching Indiana Tax Reform
  November 20, 2001
• Reassessment: How Did We Get Here?
  October 24, 2001